Slack workflow automations to implement in Marketing

Creating marketing campaign reports is a cumbersome task. Right?

Small amendments like automating routine tasks in your marketing team functions often bring immeasurable results.

Be it getting notified on high CPC for a keyword in Google Adwords, a sudden dip in conversions from a landing page, or new Twitter mention from an influencer, knowing these are happening in real-time is crucial.

Here are some simple Slack workflows that you can set up right away & see how efficient your marketing process can get.

1. Receive Email Marketing Data in Slack

You can track real-time data and manage campaign performance metrics right from Slack.

If you’re using Mailchimp, GetResponse, or HubSpot, you add their apps direct from the Slack app directory.

Here are a few metrics that you can pull in from these apps to Slack:

New Subscribers

Unsubscribers

Status of Email Campaigns

Below is a screenshot depicting how installing Mailchimp Slack app would look like:

Mailchimp integration settings

What if you’re using something else?

If you’re using Aweber, ActiveCampaign, SendinBlue or any email marketing app that isn’t listed on the app directory, the good news is that you can still get the metrics from these apps to Slack using third party integration tools like Automate.io, Zapier or IFTTT.

Setup a simple connection on any trigger from your email software and add ‘Send a Message in Slack’ as the action. And you’re good to go.

2. Get Notified on New Form Entries & Act Immediately

In your marketing team, you’re probably using online forms. Think about all the places you use them:

Collecting leads for your product demo

Inviting guest writers on your blog

Downloading an e-book

Plenty more, I’m certain

I think all us marketers agree forms are more than handy.

So, let’s talk about the product demo form for a moment.

If you use a form for a product demo, each entry is valuable to your business & needs immediate action.

You can set up a simple workflow to get notified on Slack on each of these form entries and automatically create a calendar event for yourself.

For example, to get notified on Typeform, Wufoo, SurveyMonkey or JotForm, you can add their Slack App in your Slack Workspace and get notified for each entry.

Below, I’ve taken a sample Typeform form and will fill in details to show you how you would get notified in Slack:

Slack Typeform integration

Furthermore, using third party integration tools can help you setup multi-app workflows.

For this, you need to create a simple connection on any trigger from your form app, add Send a Message in Slack as the action and further add another step of Create a Calendar Event.

3. Trigger Notifications & Emails for New Leads

You can deliver new lead details from your CRM to Slack by using the HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho CRM apps from the directory.

Once you’ve done this, you can further optimize the process by setting up emails or calls with your leads.

You can trigger automated emails based on the lead scoring data by setting up rules in your CRM.

If it’s an MQL, you can immediately send a notification to your sales team and they can create a task to follow-up.

For notifications on new leads from your CRM, search for your CRM in the Slack app directory and add the app to your Slack Workspace.

Slack workflow automations to implement in Sales

1. Sync your meetings across apps:

Syncing all your meetings (in every app, email client, and device) is a productivity sap.

If your team uses Zoom or Google Calendar, you can integrate Slack with these apps and get notifications before your meetings.

Additionally, you can respond directly to event invitations, kick start your meetings on Hangouts or Zoom right from Slack, and get details on updated events.

If you use any other calendar app and wish to get notified on Slack for the upcoming events, sync them with your Google Calendar and you’re good.

For additional workflows and calendar syncs, check out Automate.io for all the integrations available with Google Calendar.

2. Follow-up on New Opportunity in your CRM

When it comes to following up with prospects, timing is everything.

To follow-up with a personal touch, you should understand the opportunity & reach out in a manner that is personalized to your customer.

A few CRMs have their own Slack Apps, which will let you get new opportunity data in your Slack with their details. This way you can get notified and take action right away.

Additionally, it’s a good practice to create a task on your productivity app (like Asana or Trello) or set up a meeting for these opportunities & start working on them.

Want to get started? Check here to see if your CRM is listed on the directory.

3. Celebrate your new customer with your team

Although the sales bell or the sales going hasn’t totally disappeared, sales success is celebrated differently in the modern workplace.

Make complex workflows simple when dealing with multiple apps + Slack

All the workflows mentioned above are either simple one to one or multi-app Slack workflows. So things like Typeform + Slack is no problem.

However, in the marketing, sales, and support world, there are often examples where you need to use app 1, app 2, and then Slack as well.

Automate.io lets you set up automated workflows between multiple apps. Here’s a common example:

A new form entry via Typeform

Notify on Slack to the Marketing Channel

Add it to your Mailchimp List

Wait for 2 days

Trigger an automated campaign via Mailchimp

Creating a workflow when using Typeform, Slack, and Mailchimp together

So if your business also uses multiple apps across various teams (and would like to streamline processes by getting all the notifications in Slack), you might want to consider automating workflows across them.

Automation is the key to the efficiency castle. So, go ahead & start making your apps talk to each other and see what difference they can bring in to your business.

This is a guest post by Archita Sharma. She helps B2B SaaS businesses with Marketing & is currently doing it for Automate.io. You can find Archita on Twitter and LinkedIn.